The former WWE Champion continues to work with WWE, however, and last appeared at The Undertaker’s retirement special in November 2020.
JBL spent a substantial amount of time as a WWE commentator following his retirement, but stepped away from that in 2017.
Those are just 10 former WWE superstars who retired from professional wrestling and actually stayed retired.
I intended on including Sting on this list especially after sustaining a career-ending injury in 2015, but the 61-year-old former WCW icon shocked the world in early December 2020 and debuted on WWE-competitor AEW for one final run.